TY - JOUR T1 - Salvage immunotherapy for fulminant pseudomembranous colitis JF - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr-2013-008786 VL - 2013 SP - bcr2012008786 AU - Salman Abdulaziz AU - Nabil Abou-Shala AU - Ashraf Al-Tarifi AU - Rashid Amin Y1 - 2013/02/20 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2013/bcr-2013-008786.abstract N2 - A 49-year-old man was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for septic shock secondary to Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) complicated with severe pseudomembranous colitis. His medical history was remarkable for glossectomy, proximal esophagectomy and gastric pull-up for recurrent laryngeal cancer. Two weeks prior to his ICU admission, he was treated with a 10-day course of intravenous ceftazidime for line-related sepsis, after which he had several bouts of green watery diarrhoea. CDI was confirmed by positive stool cytotoxin A immunoassay, with persistent diarrhoea despite 21 days of oral metronidazole. The … ER -